This is Part Two of “On Set, Off Camera – Ninth Edition.” As before, it consists mainly of shots of actors and directors caught in off-camera moments during the making of a movie, sometimes off-set, at home and elsewhere. Some of these are candid and some are obviously posed promotional shots, but I think they’re all interesting.

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Buster Keaton with Josephine the Monkey while making The Cameraman (1928), arguably the last great Keaton silent feature.

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Frances Ford Coppola, on location for Apocalypse Now (1975). Below that, Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, with Coppola looking through the camera lens. At bottom, the crew executes a tracking shot during the helicopter attack on the village.

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Coppola directs Al Pacino and Lee Strasberg in a scene from The Godfather Part II (1974).

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Werner Herzog on location for Fitzcarraldo (1982). Below at left, Herzog with a camel while shooting Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970). At right, Herzog with Les Blank behind him at the Telluride film festival in 1982 (photo by Mark Ryan).

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The great Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami as a young boy. Below that, a little older, with Akira Kurosawa.

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Natalie Wood in New York City, 1961. Empire State Building way in the background.

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Donald Sutherland, looking great.

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Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn arriving in London, just back from shooting John Huston’s The African Queen (1951) in Africa.

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Bogart. Now that’s a look.

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Robert Mitchum and Lauren Bacall.

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Anita Ekberg with Frank Sinatra.

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Rita Hayworth and Claudia Cardinale in Madrid, 1964.

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Brigitte Bardot. I love this shot.

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Jean-Luc Godard

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Isabella Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman

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Elaine May, directing in New York City.

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Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes.

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David Lynch with his father. All the trees and lumber in Twin Peaks begins to make sense.

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Alain Delon in Venice, 1962. Below that, with Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger.

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Manspreading with Sergei Eisenstein.

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Ursula Andress and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

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Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci stay out of the heat while waiting for “Action!” in Casino (1995).

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David Lean directs Lawrence of Arabia (1962), with Peter O’Toole standing by.

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Truffaut

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Agnès Varda

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Kubrick

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Sidney Lumet

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James Dean

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Martin Scorsese on the set of Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).

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Cinematographer Gordon Willis takes a reading while shooting The Godfather (1972). Note Francis Coppola in the background.

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That’s a wrap for this one. Don’t forget to VOTE!!! See you next time. — Ted Hicks

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